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Afterwards, when we had showered and were leaving, I spotted the paper, scrumpled up under the bench in the corner. I went over and lifted it. I read the interview, smiling and shaking my head. It was nothing only compliments from Mattie. A privilege to play against Tony Scullion and so on. Coleman had made it all up.

He once asked me to come over to the Rossa pitch in Magherafelt the Saturday before a championship match, but told me to say nothing about it. Patsy O’Donnell and Eamonn’s son Gary were there, already togged out. ‘Jody’, he said, ‘I want you to test these two men out.’ I went to full forward. First Patsy picked me up. Half a dozen times the ball was put in for me to run onto, take him on and try to score. Then it was Gary’s turn. Afterwards, Eamonn beckoned me over to the sideline. ‘Well Jody, which one of them would you pick at corner back tomorrow?’ I thought about it for a second, and said, ‘Have we nobody else?’ He tried to keep a straight face, but quickly burst out laughing. ‘What are we going to do with you, Jody?’ he said, as he walked away, ‘what are we going to do with you?’